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Since when did this become a thing?

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Curiouscat101 · 20/07/2023 22:47

I’ve recently joined a local gym having spent a lot of my adult life trying to avoid the place. Don’t have much social media so didn’t realise the new “trend” is to wear scrunch bum shorts and sports bras

Honestly so many females wearing this in my gym. I felt like the odd one out wearing a black tshirt and some old black leggings.

Ive always done running so in okay shape but I felt out of place in what I was wearing having just started. Maybe I just need to pay less attention to others 😂

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3BSHKATS · 21/07/2023 13:33

DrSbaitso · 21/07/2023 10:48

Oh, this old bollocks again.

99.99% of the time, what they are actually saying is "don't send me dick pics" and "don't make disgusting and offensive comments". A woman posting pictures of herself in not much doesn't make it OK for men to talk openly to her about smashing her back doors in, licking her pussy, coming on her tits and the rest of it.

Yes, that kind of egregiously offensive stuff that pained me to type out is what they're talking about. If you still "don't get" it because SHE'S WEARING A BIKINI, just trust me, it's not OK and there's no contradiction in posting a sexy pic and not wanting to be spoken to like that. It's totally unacceptable and what she's wearing is irrelevant.

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Yes, but you have to remember. We are dealing with very simple minds here so it does need saying over and over and over again until it sinks in

ClaudiaWankleman · 21/07/2023 13:34

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Fuck off.

MentholLoad · 21/07/2023 13:35

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I don't think that you have seen the leggings. no one can see up anyone's crack

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DrSbaitso · 21/07/2023 13:40

MentholLoad · 21/07/2023 13:35

I don't think that you have seen the leggings. no one can see up anyone's crack

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Except Terven. She must be really looking hard. Strange, since it offends her so much.

Princessconsuelabananahammock9 · 21/07/2023 13:48

This thread is painfully misogynistic.

If you don't like them, don't wear them. Simple. No need to shame women over them.

Terven · 21/07/2023 13:53

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AppleTurnover1000Degrees · 21/07/2023 13:55

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Wow!

Terven · 21/07/2023 13:56

I don’t care. I’m done with this place anyway.

2bazookas · 21/07/2023 13:57

Skeldale · 20/07/2023 23:01

You mean these? Yeah all the range with the younger girls at my gym too.

Holy shit.
Thank god for being very old.

Terven · 21/07/2023 13:57

Absolutely fed up with people trying to guilt trip you because they don’t like your opinion even though they asked for an opinion.

WomanOfSteel · 21/07/2023 14:03

DrSbaitso · 21/07/2023 07:42

I've been going to gyms in different cities and at different cost and quality levels for 15 years and I have never seen this "posing twats" phenomenon (the stereotype existed before Instagram, they were just posing instead of taking photos). Never. Most people at all the gyms I've been to have been normal looking and the truly ripped or superfit ones are just working out, as you'd need to do to get those physiques.

A very few women wear revealing stuff but it's hard to care.

I've never seen women "prancing around" naked in the changing rooms either, although in MN land it's an epidemic. I've seen women briefly naked while they dry and dress. Never a prance, not once.

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My communal changing rooms at my old pool had loads of prancers. These were predominantly older women, the younger ones were more modest. There was one woman there that I used to call the Shining lady. She was about mid 30’s, long blonde hair and had a great figure (like the lady in the bath before Jack Nicholson snogs her and she changes). When she had been in the shower, she would drape her towel over a shoulder and then wander round the changing room talking to people completely in the buff. I’d just be sat putting my shoes on and she’d stand right in front of me - with her flaps right at my eye level - talking and stretching. I hated it. It’s so much better now we have cubicles.

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Yes, judged by losers. No one cares.

Branster · 21/07/2023 14:07

CockSpadget · 21/07/2023 00:20

I think it’s good that women have the confidence to wear them. They feel good in them, so that’s all that matters really.

True.
But these shorts and leggings look absolutely awful on absolutely every single person, even on someone with the body of a fitness model.
And why would anyone want to make their arse so obvious? It's like some sort of overly sexualised target.

AppleTurnover1000Degrees · 21/07/2023 14:08

WomanOfSteel · 21/07/2023 14:03

My communal changing rooms at my old pool had loads of prancers. These were predominantly older women, the younger ones were more modest. There was one woman there that I used to call the Shining lady. She was about mid 30’s, long blonde hair and had a great figure (like the lady in the bath before Jack Nicholson snogs her and she changes). When she had been in the shower, she would drape her towel over a shoulder and then wander round the changing room talking to people completely in the buff. I’d just be sat putting my shoes on and she’d stand right in front of me - with her flaps right at my eye level - talking and stretching. I hated it. It’s so much better now we have cubicles.

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😂

It must a swimmers thing because I've seen it too.

AppleTurnover1000Degrees · 21/07/2023 14:11

Never a prance, not once

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DrSbaitso · 21/07/2023 14:17

Terven · 21/07/2023 13:56

I don’t care. I’m done with this place anyway.

We'll miss you.

our aim is improving

tattygrl · 21/07/2023 14:23

I think this style of shorts/leggings fit is misogynistic. You never see this kind of design for me, completely wedged up the arse crack so as to create a fake-looking, sexually idealised bum. I'm very sex-positive, and pro women (and anyone) wearing ANYTHING they want! But I find this trend to be so blatantly about sexualising women that I just can't help but loathe it. I don't say this to anyone irl, though. I wouldn't want to shame anyone and I don't judge individuals for wearing them. More the overall societal trend of women's clothing being designed for maximum sexualisation, when men's active wear has remained, for the past forever, baggy, comfortable clothing.

tattygrl · 21/07/2023 14:23

You never see this kind of design for men*, not "me" 😂

DrSbaitso · 21/07/2023 14:23

Branster · 21/07/2023 14:07

True.
But these shorts and leggings look absolutely awful on absolutely every single person, even on someone with the body of a fitness model.
And why would anyone want to make their arse so obvious? It's like some sort of overly sexualised target.

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Well I don't know, but when I was younger there was a trend for jogging bottoms with Juicy or Sexy written across the bum, so this generation isn't the first to discover it. And I think there were cutaway and thong leotards before that. Some people like to dress that way. It's their thing.

Dontletsummerend · 21/07/2023 15:01

Princessconsuelabananahammock9 · 21/07/2023 13:48

This thread is painfully misogynistic.

If you don't like them, don't wear them. Simple. No need to shame women over them.

Misogynistic? Why don’t men even have this issue?

Actually I’m not a fan of very short shorts on men either regardless of thighs or buttocks. A hint of scrotum is as off putting as a hint of flap. You may be hot as hell but unless we’re about to do the deed I don’t want to see it.

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 21/07/2023 15:05

It's not "misogynistic" to opine that certain fashions are unflattering and undignified.

Wearing something that accentuates one's asshole is crass, low-class and tacky.

MentholLoad · 21/07/2023 15:23

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 21/07/2023 15:05

It's not "misogynistic" to opine that certain fashions are unflattering and undignified.

Wearing something that accentuates one's asshole is crass, low-class and tacky.

again, they don't accentuate your asshole 🤷🏼‍♀️...they accentuate your butt

Yesquiteright · 21/07/2023 15:26

DrSbaitso · 21/07/2023 07:42

I've been going to gyms in different cities and at different cost and quality levels for 15 years and I have never seen this "posing twats" phenomenon (the stereotype existed before Instagram, they were just posing instead of taking photos). Never. Most people at all the gyms I've been to have been normal looking and the truly ripped or superfit ones are just working out, as you'd need to do to get those physiques.

A very few women wear revealing stuff but it's hard to care.

I've never seen women "prancing around" naked in the changing rooms either, although in MN land it's an epidemic. I've seen women briefly naked while they dry and dress. Never a prance, not once.

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Same here, many different gyms over the years, never seen anyone ever take a selfie, not once. They just use their phones to time their sets. Young people wear more revealing clothes I suppose but not so obvious that you'd do a double take

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 21/07/2023 15:27

MentholLoad · 21/07/2023 15:23

again, they don't accentuate your asshole 🤷🏼‍♀️...they accentuate your butt

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As a pp observed, all of that puckering makes the wearer's rear look like a giant asshole. It's tacky.

And most people don't have a rump worth accentuating; quite the opposite.

ClaudiaWankleman · 21/07/2023 15:49

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 21/07/2023 15:27

As a pp observed, all of that puckering makes the wearer's rear look like a giant asshole. It's tacky.

And most people don't have a rump worth accentuating; quite the opposite.

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You might not think their bum is worth accentuating, but fortunately it's got fuck all to do with you, and everything to do with what the bum's owner wants to do with it.